PhDr. Barbora Matějčková

PhDr. Barbora Matějčková is a sports psychologist who works with elite and amateur athletes, coaches, teams and parents. Between 2022 and 2024, she worked as a sports psychologist at ASC Dukla Prague, where she mainly worked with Olympians and members of the Czech national team. She currently works with Bohemians Prague football club and the Prague beach volleyball club, and is part of the Balance Club Brumlovka team. Above all, she runs her own sports psychology practice, Sport and Mind, where she and her colleagues work with Czech national teams across a range of sports. She is also currently working with the Paralympic Committee to prepare Paralympians for the 2028 Summer Paralympics in Los Angeles.

She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc. During her studies, she also studied at the University of A Coruña in Spain as part of the Erasmus+ programme. She completed her master’s degree and her rigorous thesis defence at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. She complements her psychology studies with practical training in the fields of physical fitness and nutrition: she has completed a course in dietary and nutritional counselling at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, and is a functional trainer specialising in health. She is also a trainee on a five‑year psychotherapy training programme in Biosynthesis and has successfully completed coaching and crisis intervention training.

She also shares her experience with other professionals. She led a round‑table discussion on the topic of ‘Performance under pressure’ for coaches of all specialisations, organised by the Czech Association of Sports Psychologists, and is a member of the team at the ‘ Aktivní Česko’ exercise psychology counselling centre.